CANDIDATE PROFILE: Norm Dunn, Katter's Australian Party

I AM standing as
the Katter's Australian Party (KAP) candidate for the Riverina because of the lack of
action as support the major parties have shown not just to the agriculture
communities but also to those in manufacturing and small business.

The KAP
has a management strategy that balances and mitigates the extremes of high and
low rainfall cycles on farming and communities is crucial to the environment and
to the communities that live there.

By using sustainable irrigation
practices support a huge biomass of native flora, fauna and migratory birds and
as such, have become an integral and essential component of the Murray Darling
River ecosystem.

The ecological value of irrigation precludes the use of
damaging unseasonal artificial environmental flows.

The KAP, will rescind the
Water Act of 2007 and redraft it with real input from the inhabitants and water
users of the Murray-Darling Basin to incorporate an unequivocal definition of
"the environment" which includes human beings - their communal, agricultural,
horticultural, commercial, recreational, historical and social activities - and
gives them equal consideration in a revised management plan.

Katter's
Australian Party will ensure all water purchased by the Federal Government is
made available to irrigators in the dry years.